COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...
Discover the remarkable life of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and co-founder of CORE and SCLC. His contributions to ...
The Conference Board reports a majority of surveyed corporate citizenship and philanthropy leaders anticipate no tangible ...
The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...
Watching the film, “A Complete Unknown,” about Bob Dylan and his early days starting out on his road to fame, helped me realize how much this musician was such an ...
For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...
Under Doris Bland’s leadership, MAW reframed welfare as a right rather than a privilege, emphasizing the dignity and agency ...
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
The executive director of Equality California, an LGBTQ civil rights group, lauded Takano’s new role. “Rep. Takano has long been a trailblazer, not only as the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color and ...
President Donald Trump championed a commonly-held racial ideology during his inaugural address on ... “While DEI programs have not brought full equality by any means, dismantling them will take us ...
A new documentary series by the city’s historical society about the 1960s events will probably be the last word on them for ...